Everything I Know About Writing I Learned from Rejections III: When Rejection...
Golda Meir once said, “Don’t be so humble, you are not that great.” I have been very humble in the previous two posts. But as I’m really not that great, today we chuck all that humility, cuz there are...
View ArticleWaiter, There’s a Fly in My Fantasy
Romance, I’m firmly convinced, is all about the fantasy. What the fantasy is, however, very much depends on each individual reader. And what that fantasy isn’t, is equally idiosyncratic. For me, some...
View ArticleThe Times, They Have Changed, I Think–I Hope
Recently, the Smart Bitches had a posting on the rules and boundaries of the romance hero’s conduct—namely, is he allowed to sleep with other women in the course of his love story, once he has met the...
View ArticleThe Theory of Accelerated Karma II: You can type this @#$%, George
One of my favorite anecdotes from the Star Wars mother lode involves Harrison Ford, George Lucas, and the script for Episode IV: A New Hope. I adore George Lucas, I would love to have his as my...
View ArticleLooking for a few good women
I am very hard on romance heroines. I don’t know why. I sometimes wonder if we romance writers as a whole put twice the amount of effort into our heroes as into our heroines. Certainly over the years...
View ArticleIt’s all about me
I love women. But as a healthy, overwhelmingly heterosexual woman, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that men, in all their varieties and flavors, bring to the table an excitement that is...
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Mystery Cover
I love covers, and to my surprise, Spanish book club version of PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS showed up at my door a few days ago, with a different cover. The provenance of the image, according to the info at...
View ArticleChinese Mothers, My @ss–Updated
Update: Thanks to reader Victoria and Leda, I did some digging around and realized that Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, far from a how-to manual featuring the sort of methods so prominently depicted...
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